Bottle-washing machine.



No. 788,682. PATENTED MAY 2, 1905. F. G. H. STBASBURGER.

BOTTLE WASHING MACHINE.

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F. 0. H. STRASBURGER.

BOTTLE WASHING MACHINE.

APPLIOA'JPION FILED AUG. 27, 1904.

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BOTTLE WASHING MACHINE.

'APPLIOATION FILED AUG. 27. 1904.

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PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK C. H. STRASBURGER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE BOTTLERS SPECIAL MACHINERY COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS,

A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

BOTTLE-WASHING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 788,682,

dated May 2, 1905.

Application filed August 27, 1904. Serial No. 222.436.

To all whom. it minty concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK C. H. S'rRAsBUn- GER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Washing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to bottle-washing machines of the type disclosed in my former patent, No. 756,427, dated April 5, 190 1. The object of this invention is to provide 'for easily and accurately adjusting the washing mechanism for bottles of different height, such as pint and quart bottles and others, so so that the machine can be made in a standard way and readily adapted for washing-different bottles.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly broken away and partly in section, showing as much of the whole machine as is necessary to understand the present in vention. Fig. 2 is a detail enlarged view of the detachable adjusting device. Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional view looking at the front of the washing mechanism.

Referring to the drawings, 5 is an endless carrier arranged to travel around an elliptical frame 6 and isintermittently operated by actuating-arms 7, mounted on a rock-shaft 8, which also carries an arm 9, operatively engaged with the cam 10 on the cam-shaft 11.

Spring-pressed fingers 12 on the upper ends a 1 being shown) are arranged to engage and feed the carrier. The power-shaft 13 carries a belt-pulley 1 1 and is geared with an upright shaft l5,which in turn is geared with awormshaft 16, carrying a Worm 17, which operates a gear 18 on the cam-shaft 11. The washing mechanism is located within the elliptical frame and comprises a vertically-movable water-chest19, which is guided on the rod 20 and the shaft 21. The brushes 22 are carried by hollow spindles 23, which are guided in the sleeves 24 and are connected at their lower ends to revoluble tubes 25, connected with openings in the top of the water-chest.

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range two rows of brushes in order to wash two rowsof bottles at the same time, and the 5 tubes 25 in each row are geared together by the inter-meshing gears 26, and one of the tubes in one row carries a gear 27, which meshes with a gear 28 in the other row, so that all of the brushes can be revolved simultaneously. These gears are driven from the upright shaft 15 through the gear 29, the gear 30, rigid on the shaft 21, the gear 31, splined on said shaft 21 and meshing with the gear 28. The gear 31 is held between the collar 32, carried by the water-chest, and a plate 33, also carried by the water-chest and holding the gears 26, 27, and 28 in place between itself and said chest. The gear 31 moves vertically with the washing mechan- 5 ism and communicates movement to the brushes through the gears 28, 27, and 26 and the tubes 25 and spindles 23. \Vater is supplied to the chest 19 through a flexible pipe 19, connected with a supply-pipe 19".

The washingmechanism is moved vertically to carry the brushes into the bottles 34 by means of levers 35, securedon each side of the machine to a rock-shaft 36, which also carries an arm 37, operatively engaged with the cam 38 on the camshaft 11. The washing mechanism is counterbalanced by adjustable weights 39, carried on arms 39, fastened to the rock-shaft 36 and forming, in practical effect, extensions of the levers 35.

The foregoing brief description will make clear the general construction and operation of the machine disclosed in my aforesaid patent and with which, for convenience, I have chosen to embody the present invention; but 5 it will be understood that this invention can be used in other machines and is not limited to this particular embodiment.

The present invention is designed to adapt the washing-machine to be readily and easily 9 adjusted for washing bottles of different height, and this is accomplished by adjusting the movement of the washing mechanism. One of the adjusting devices is shown on the machine in Fig. 1 and detached in enlarged detail views in Figs. 2 and 3, and it comprises two screw-threaded members 40 and 41, pivotally connected at their lower ends 40 to the levers 35 and at their upper ends 41 to the ends of the plate 33, Fig. 4. These members are right and left threaded, and they operate in a correspondinglythreaded sleeve 42, which carries a Worm-gear 43 at itslower end. A collar 44 is arranged on the sleeve between a shoulder 45 and the worm-gear, and this collar is provided with arms 46, having bearings 47 for the operating-shaft 48, which carries a worm 49, meshing with the worm-gear 43, and a crank-handle 50. 1 preferably provide one of these adjusting devices oneach side of the machine and connected with each of the levers 35, and the shaft 48 extends across the machine and carries a worm for each wormgear. It will be readily understood that by turning the shaft 48 the worm 49, meshing with the worm-gear 43, will revolve the sleeve 42, and, depending upon the direction in which the sleeve is revolved, the members 40 and 41 will be moved apart or toward each other and correspondingly limit or increase the vertical movement of the washing mechanism. The washing mechanism can therefore be readily adjusted and regulated to carry the brushes up sufliciently to wash quart bottles or pint bottles or bottles of other height, and the adjustment can be quickly changed and set to correspond to the kind of bottles being washed. I am thus able to produce a standard machine which can be employed by many different bottlers who are using a variety of hottles, as it is possible to set the machine for a particular style of bottle and change it quickly and as often as desired for bottles of other styles.

Without limiting myself to the exact construction and arrangement of parts herein shown and described, whatI claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a bottle-washing machine, the combination of washing mechanism, means for reciprocating said mechanism, and a plurality of adjusting devices each comprising a sleeve interiorly right and leftthreaded, screw-threaded members connected respectively to the washing mechanism and the reciprocating means and arranged to operate in opposite ends of said sleeve, a worm-gear on the sleeve, a shaft supported on the sleeve, and a worm on said shaftmeshing with said gear for turning the sleeve.

2. In a bottle-washing machine, the combination of washing mechanism, means for reciprocating said mechanism, and a plurality of adjusting devices each comprising a sleeve interiorly right and left threaded, screw-threaded members connected respectively to the washing mechanism and reciprocating means and arranged to operate in opposite ends of said sleeve, a worm-gear on the lower end of the sleeve, a shoulder on the sleeve, a collar arranged on the sleeve between said shoulder and the worm-gear and provided with outwardly-projecting arms, a shaft operating in bearings in said arms, and aworm on the shaft between said arms and meshing with said gear on the sleeve.

3. In a bottle-washing machine, the combination of Washing mechanism, means for reciprocating said mechanism comprising a lever at each end thereof, a pair of sleeves interiorly right and leftthreaded, screw-threaded members pivotally connected to the Washing mechanism at the ends thereof and arranged to operate in the upper end of said sleeves, screw-threaded members pivotally connected to the ends of the levers and arranged to operate in the lower end of said sleeves, a worm-gear on the lower end of each sleeve, an operating-shaft supported on the sleeves, and worms on said shaft meshing with said gears for turning the sleeves.

FRANK C. H. STRASBURGER.

Witnesses:

WM. 0. BELT, MARY KIDDIE. 

